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Adjective: tricky (trickier,trickiest)  tri-kee
  1. Not to be trusted
    "how extraordinarily tricky a liar the camera is";
    - slippery
     
  2. Having concealed difficulty
    "a tricky recipe to follow";
    - catchy
     
  3. Marked by skill in deception
    "tricky Dick";
    - crafty, cunning, dodgy [Brit, informal], foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, wily

Derived forms: trickiest, trickier

See also: artful, difficult, hard, untrustworthy, untrusty

Encyclopedia: Tricky, Tricky